Subject: Correction: DC Area Legal History Roundtable, Friday, Sept. [12]
From: Daniel Ernst <[email-masked]>
To: Law Faculty and Visitors <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Erin K. Jay" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 16:44:25 +0000

Dear Colleagues:

I'm certainly starting the year on the right foot!  The date of the Roundtable is September 12, not September 19, and the room is McDonough 220, not 202.  In other respects, the information below is correct.

Dan

From: Daniel Ernst
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:13 PM
To: Law Faculty and Visitors
Subject: DC Area Legal History Roundtable, Friday, Sept. 19

Dear Colleagues,

The DC Area Legal History Roundtable is a gathering of legal historians and those interested in legal history that irregularly convenes at one of the city's law schools.  Georgetown is hosting it in McDonough 202 from 12 to 4, on Friday, September 19.  Among the presenters are Bill Treanor and Anne Fleming; among the commentators is our visitor Brad Snyder.  Please feel free to attend as much of the afternoon as you'd like, but if you plan to eat lunch, please rsvp by Friday to [email-masked].<mailto:[email-masked].>

The schedule appears below.  Abstracts and papers are at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/symposia-lectures/legal-history-roundtable.cfm

Dan

12:00-1:00: Buffet Lunch

1:00-2:20: Original Intent and Original Meaning (Daniel Ernst, Moderator)

Does the Magna Carta Embody a Proportionality Principle
Craig S. Lerner, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law
Comment: Erin Kidwell, Georgetown University Law Center

Gouverneur Morris's Constitution
William Michael Treanor, Dean and Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Comment: Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., George Washington University Law School

2:20-2:35: Break

2:35-3:55: Judicial Dissenters and Consumer Activists (Moderator Renee Lerner, GW Law)

Dissent and the Constitutional Dialogue (Knopf/Atheneum, 2015).
Chapter 1 + "Hugo L. Black in Betts v. Brady (1942)"
Melvyn Urofsky, Professor Emeritus of History, Virginia Commonwealth University
Comment: Brad Snyder, University of Wisconsin Law /Georgetown University Law Center

The Consumer's Counsel, a chapter from "City of Debtors: Law, Loan Sharks, and the Shadow Economy of Urban Poverty, 1900-1970"
Anne Fleming, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Comment: Lewis Grossman, AU, Washington College of Law

3:55-4:00: Planning